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Hosting Data-Transfer Quotas Are Fading Out 135

Posted by kdawson on Friday September 04, 2009 @02:47AM from the unmetered-is-not-unlimited dept.

miller60 writes "One of the largest Web hosts has scrapped data transfer quotas on all its shared hosting plans, retiring one of the oldest metrics in the hosting industry. With its latest move, 1&1 Internet has gone all-in on 'unlimited' hosting, a controversial practice viewed by many as a gimmick that promises more than it can deliver. Yahoo and Go Daddy have also experimented with unlimited plans, as the shared hosting sector responds to a tough economy, tough competition, and predictions that it will be made obsolete by cloud computing."

Submission + - Celebrity Gossip Gets a Web 2.0 Facelift (gossipcraze.com)

Submitted by

newsmore

on Wednesday January 28, 2009 @01:38PM

newsmore writes: "Celebrity Gossip just got a Web 2.0 face lift — The World's First Web 2.0 Wiki Style Gossip Portal — cool choices, more controls and loads of fun. Web 2.0 Live Gossip, Celebrity Secrets, Scandals and more Celebrity Gossip just got a Web 2.0 face lift — The World's First Web 2.0 Wiki Style Gossip Portal — cool choices, more controls and loads of fun. World's first Web 2.0 gossip portal — now you're in the driving seat. Built for the community, this new user-friendly wiki-based portal allows users to add gossip pages in a matter of seconds. It's simple to use, quick, entertaining and lots of fun. This Web 2.0 Wiki Style Portal gives the users enormous advantages. Users have a much greater choice of control over the content, with better, more targeted results. Users have the ability to add various titles, categories and gossip images, and thus giving the information more relevance. Gossip is one of the oldest and still the most common means of spreading and sharing facts and views. This Web 2.0 Portal, so called Gossip Craze is predicted to start a new Internet craze among young users. Anyone can use the portal to start a gossip column, add some rumors or publish scandals. Gossip Craze is an official site for entertainment, news, celebrity gossip, rumors, paparazzi, celebrity news, photo galleries and more. People are passionate about controlling the choices they have. The web is full of complicated and confusing log-in screens, forms, applications, approvals and user panels, normally specifically controlled and regulated by the site developers. The creators of this portal have eliminated the complicated and unnecessary ho-hum of the Internet and hence made a simple but very effective end-user solution."

Submission + - Tom BigAl Schreiter Reveals the Big Secret ... (mystsebook.com)

Submitted by

Vita08

on Wednesday January 28, 2009 @01:37PM

Vita08 writes: "Listen as Tom Schreiter reveals the Big Secret that he's been holding back on ..."

Submission + - Multitouch development made easy (easier) (sourceforge.net)

Submitted by

dr.matrix

on Wednesday January 28, 2009 @01:37PM

dr.matrix writes: "Do you happen to have a multitouch interface lying around? One of the big ones? Yes, of course you do. If you are into writing applications for that sort of thing, you might want to check out the second beta release of libTISCH, a multitouch development library with focus on applications. Head over to http://tisch.sourceforge.net/ and grab the source. Works under Linux, Windows and Mac. Yes, an iPhone port is in the works. No, it won't blend.
P.S. If you don't have a big multitouch table: it also has a mouse-based emulation mode."

Submission + - Seminar on Charles Stross's science fiction (crookedtimber.org)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 28, 2009 @12:43PM

An anonymous reader writes: Crooked Timber have organized a seminar on Charlie Stross's science fiction, with contributions from 2008 Nobel prize winner in economics, Paul Krugman, among others.

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